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Environmentalists have long known that when it comes to climate change, coal will be a dealbreaker. The carbon-intensive fossil fuel provides nearly half of the United States' electricity, and is responsible for some 30% of the country's greenhouse gas emissions. That's just due to the coal plants already operating - as the U.S. looks to expand its energy supply to meet rising demand in the future, over 100 coal plants are in various stages of development around the country. If those plants are built without the means to capture and sequester underground the carbon they emit...
Living "off the grid" is usually the choice of the hardened survivalist, the mountain man and perhaps the odd fugitive running from bounty hunters. But more and more Americans are now opting to disconnect from the grid - i.e., government, electric and other utility services - which delivers increasingly expensive fossil-fuel-based power and is, as millions in the Northeast learned during the 2003 blackout, anything but infallible. In 2006, Home Power magazine estimated that more than 180,000 U.S. homes were supplying their own power. "Some people want to minimize their impact on the environment," says Dave Black, a disaster...
Forward-thinking medical institutions are taking a hard look at their energy portfolio. "I've seen a huge uptick in hospitals exploring and investigating" ways to reduce fossil-fuel dependence, says Nick DeDominicis of Practice Green Health, particularly since 2007 when World Health Organization and U.N. reports suggested that climate change due to fossil-fuel use and CO2 emissions could threaten public health. Hospitals, such as the California-based Kaiser Permanente and San Francisco's Catholic Healthcare West, have gone greener by swapping out old equipment for more energy-efficient systems of heating, cooling, lighting and dehumidifying. DeDominicis says...
Only border measures established by multilateral agreement and targeted toward fossil fuels and energy-intensive methods of production should be allowable, according to Frankel. These measures would either impose tariffs or require an exchange of carbon permits, and create a uniform method to evaluate the actual environmental impacts of production...
...that was back when the Dow was 25% higher than it is today. Several European nations, including big industrial producers like Germany, are now saying the target is unrealistic, and at an E.U. summit on Oct. 16, some Eastern European countries, which are poorer and more dependent on fossil fuels than their neighbors, called for the Continent to pull back from goals that include cutting energy consumption 20% while increasing the share of energy from renewables 20%. To some degree, Europe is simply coming to grips with the potential cost of its green dreams - up to $100 billion a year...